What a blessing it is to not think about being intentionally hurt because of an intrinsic part of your existence. What a blessing it is to not worry about your future equality. What a blessing to see his name and not feel sad or anxious. This is a fact, they say, and facts are neutral. But what of these people who feel neutral about his name? Those who say that Trump is simply “one of 46 presidents of the United States”. I’m sure there are people out there who feel happiness at the thought of women having fewer rights or being assaulted, and presumably those people want to see Trump’s name more often in the crossword. Presumably you have similar reasons or feelings as to why you don’t want to see his name in the crossword as well. I don’t want to see the word Trump in the crossword because I don’t want to feel all of those feelings his name evokes. I feel helpless, despairing, sad, and pessimistic First are the feelings that I would have if any person on earth bragged of hurting women simply because they are women. There are multiple layers to my feelings. When I hear the word “Trump”, I think of that moment during his campaign when he bragged about repeatedly sexually assaulting women. When I say “reaction”, I mean hearing his name evokes a feeling in me. Please excuse me, but I’m going to use Trump as an example, because that is a name that I personally have a reaction to. I think there’s value in thinking about why some people have a strong reaction to certain words, and some people have no reaction. I don't have anything else marked on my puzzle, so I guess I'm done. Thought flubber might've been made out of BORON ( 76A: Chemical ingredient in flubber = BORAX), and that the alleged 2018 legal drama might then have been called "On the Basis of SIN" ( 66D: "On the Basis of _" (2018 legal drama) = SEX), so that was a fun little alternate-universe diversion. I would've thought any creature with a jawbone technically had a CHIN, but apparently not. More international currency things for me to learn and then forget! Non-human primates don't have CHINs? ( 25A: Body part that humans have that other primates don't). Qatar puts a "Y" in there for some reason. it feels like a lot, is what I'm saying). I had RIALS before RIYAL (57A: Currency of Qatar) because RIAL is the name of the currency of lots and lots of places (hmm, apparently just three places (Iran, Yemen, Oman), but. But in the singular, doughnut form: new to me. Put an "S" on the end of that LONGJOHN, and then it's something I'm plenty familiar with. Also, been eating doughnuts (donuts?) and other pastry for half a century-ish and somehow never heard of a LONGJOHN (12D: Doughnut similar to an éclair). If you'd told me the tree was a COCOA palm, well, I wouldn't have known that either, but it definitely would've felt more plausible. For instance COCO Palm, which sounds like a stage name, not a tree name ( 5A: _ palm (tropical tree)). Look how fast I got the theme:īuncha stuff I did not know today. I just wish there'd been more places for this concept to go, or that this particular execution of the concept hadn't made too much of this puzzle too obvious too quickly. " IT'S DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN" is a perfect, grid-spanning 21 letters long, and it seems a wonderful phrase to build a puzzle around. And yet this theme was all too thin and simple to satisfy on a Sunday-sized canvas. It's especially funny to run this puzzle directly after a puzzle that also duplicated a word (EAR), but with absolutely no self-awareness or humor. Nothing else in the grid was that thrilling, although, again, I'll grant you that the basic thematic premise is kind of funny. I thank those names for giving me some genuine excitement, even if that excitement was basically Failure Terror. The only non-theme answers that really struck me as interesting were two proper nouns that briefly sent me into "holy crap, please don't let any of these crosses fail, please" mode ( AYOTOMETI, RUSSOLO). Also, there are just four themers, and with thematic content that light, I'd expect a much brighter and more vibrant grid than what we end up getting. I can't say this isn't a cute joke but it ends up making the puzzle so easy that it ends up being not much of a puzzle, to be honest.
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